“There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?”
How the Program Works
For eight weeks, we will meet as a small group in North Boulder, Colorado to explore our sacred stories through land based ritual following an ancient map of the 7 sacred directions. Here’s an overview.
THE MAP
The Sacred Storywork Program is an in-depth exploration of your story through writing and ritual. We will follow an ancient map, a map followed by nearly every Indigenous culture across the planet—the map of the 7 Sacred Directions or the Medicine Wheel.
The program includes a beautiful 14-page workbook with journal prompts, worksheets and additional exploratory exercises that will be yours to keep.
Weekly Overview
Your Guides for this Program
Mandy Bishop
Mandy is a ritual artist, nature-based mentor and guide, and also the founder of Old Ways Wisdom—a place where ritual art, ancestral skills, and Sacred Storywork weave together to bring us back into relationship with ourselves, the land, and the wisdom of our ancestors.
Mandy has a deep relationship with and life-long apprenticeship to the power of story and the wisdom of the land. For most of her life, Mandy has been intimately involved with the ways of her ancestors in many forms, including foraging wild foods, wildcrafting medicines, weaving baskets and making fire. Being involved in ceremony and ritual is a foundational part of Mandy’s life. Outside of guiding and teaching, Mandy fills her days with homesteading, tattooing gourds, playing with fire, and adventuring in the wilderness.
Eve Ellis
Eve is a licensed professional counselor, trained in Wilderness Therapy, Transpersonal Counseling, Grief Counseling, Play Therapy and Equine Therapy. Eve is invested in empowerment; empowerment of the individual, of the system, of the herd. Eve deeply believes that we all possess an innate and primal intelligence. In her work she strives for change and growth, and she finds that the work she does with nature and neuroscience creates movement through rewiring and regulated actions.
Eve believes in working with the whole system and embracing our fears and accomplishments equally. She works with a light touch, both with nature and humans, because she believes that we can gently shift our perspectives and find healing when we are naturally inclined towards health.